Introduction

As the increasing cost of databases is taxing many academic libraries’ budgets, it may be time to revisit our collection development policies for print materials in subject areas where the information requests are likely to
be found in print materials. History, in particular, is a subject where the materials retain their value with age. Even though we rely heavily on proprietary databases with their full-text articles, there is still a place for the
specialized print collection in academic libraries. Levine-Clark (2014) comments:

Perhaps counterintuitively, as libraries are faced with smaller budgets and ever-increasing amounts of digital content to acquire, they will refocus
their efforts on special collections. Defined broadly to include not just rare and valuable books, a library’s special collections will include any material in any format that helps distinguish the library from every other…. The
university with a library that can provide unique resources and broad range of content in an area of scholarly interest will set itself apart in attracting faculty and students. To serve this goal, libraries will invest more in rare
books, manuscripts, archives, and mainstream publications supporting crucial subject areas, as well as other resources, such as audio, video, and data sets, that serve the needs of researchers in a particular area of focus. This shift
will funded at the expense of other content, such as scholarly journals and monographs in less emphasized areas (p. 433).

Presented here is a bibliography representing a core collection on the Celtic and Roman religion in Roman Britain. This religion, which was formed from the mixing of Celtic and Roman religions, was truly a new religion. It was
formed from two powerful but different religions. The Celts believed in nature and the power it held within everything in their world. The Romans believed in the power of their pantheon of gods and goddesses. When these two factors
merged it produced a religion unlike any other in the world during the Iron Age. This bibliography will list the resources to form a core collection to be used for researching the Celtic religion and Roman religion. It will also
provide resources for researching what became the religion of Roman Britain and how it can be examined through burials. It provides a variety of information from historians and archaeologist who have studied these religions in depth.
Many academic libraries may already include several of the primary sources in their collections, which will minimize the cost of setting up this specialized collection.

Cunliffe, B. W. (1972). Cradle of England: An introduction through archaeology to the early history of England and a brief guide to selected sites in the south. London, England: British Broadcasting Corporation.

Cunliffe, B. W. (1974). Iron Age communities in Britain:An account of England, Scotland and Wales from the seventh century BC until the Roman conquest. London, England: Routledge and Keagon Paul.

Jewitt, L. (1870).Grave-mounds and their contents: A manual of archaeology as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods. London, England: Groombridge and Sons.

Kim Woodring, MA, is a graduate student at the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences and Library Assistant III at Sherrod Library, East Tennessee State University. She can be reached at woodringk@etsu.edu.